with Marjorie Lofthouse BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo

with The Rev Noel Battye
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

A Boxing Day breakfast is served up by toastmaster Bernard Falk , who shares his bacon and eggs with Sally Jones (poached from Breakfast Time). Producer JILL THOMAS Editor IRENE MALUS

Past punters join Susan Marling for flashbacks and updates on the year's reports. Produced in Bristol by the Punters team
Editor JENNY WALMSLEY

Four daily programmes with Tony Wilkinson. The Bible message comes to thousands of Russian seamen in Lerwick. The
Shetland Times reports rumours of haddock smuggling and the end of the oil boom.
Producer JULIAN HALE. Stereo

In four daily programmes, Cliff
Morgan meets some of the people who live and work along the banks of the River Tay. Today's programme includes a visit to Scone Palace where the Kings of Scotland were crowned. Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC BristoL Stereo (R)

Angels from the realms of glory (Iris) (BBC HB 42) Philippians 2, w 1-11 Carol: Lord, you were rich beyond all splendour (French, arr D. Willcocks ) Hark, the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn) (BBC HB 50)
Director of Music
ALAN WILSON. Stereo

by GRAEME CURRY.
Cast for the fortnight:
Directed by ADRIAN BEAN Producer CUVE BRILL. Stereo

Ludovic Kennedy talks with Dr Anthony Clare. Researcher RONNI DA vis
Producer MICHAEL EMBER (R)

2: A Rite of Passage for the Apprentice
Graham Buckley can become a man only through a ceremony of degradation ...
Producer CATHIE MAHONEY Stereo

Starring Wilfred Hyde-White and Richard Murdoch. With Diana Olsson, Roy Dotrice, Norma Ronald, David Graham and John Graham.
(First broadcast Nov 1962)

.... or The Newsreaders Strike Back!
Michael Aspel delves into the mysteries of Network Presentation.
From Radio 2: James Alexander Gordon and Steve Madden. From Radio 3: Peter Barker and Susan Sharpe. From Radio 4:
Laurie Macmillan and Charlotte Green. Scorer and adjudicator GRAHAM POINTON.
BBC Pronunciation Adviser.
Devised and written by DIRK MAGGS
Producer RICHARD EDIS

Bernard Cribbins reads The Mystery Voyage of the Cuttlefish by ALEXA ROMANES. Producer DAVID LAN NEVILLE Stereo (R)

The second of two sketches by DAVID BUCK. 2: Guns
With Geoffrey Collins as Pierre Luoys.
Technical presentation by JOHN PARTINGTON SARAH DEVONALD and RUPERT FUNDT. Stereo (R)

An impression of Vaslav Nijinsky 's scandalous ballet, in which he danced the faun;
Stephane Mallarme 's erotic poem LApresmidi dun Faune; and Claude Debussy's famous Prélude, composed in 1894, which accompanied them both. Anton Lesser as the Faun/Nijinsky Daniel Massey as Debussy
John Moffatt as Mallarme and Anna Cropper as Romola Nijinsky. Directed by JOHN POWELL Stereo (R)

The novel by GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD dramatised by FREDERICK BRADNUM. With and If Sir Ben had succeeded in his mission, he would have changed the course of history ... Set in Germany and England in the late 1930s.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo

Paul Allen meets three theatre professionals: Jane Lapotaire, currently C.S. Lewis's beloved Joy Davidman in Shadowlands; Ian McDiarmid, who acted in Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince and took over the Almeida; Timberlake Wertenbaker, who won success for Our Country's Good.

(Stereo)

A portrait in her own words of Dame Daphne du Maurier.
Christopher Cook presents scenes from the life of the best-selling novelist, who died earlier this year.
Reader JOANNA DAVID. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
BBC Bristol

With Norman Bird as Harry Hardcastle.
2: Dark Satanic Writer Stereo (R)

A special invitation challenge match featuring the winners and runners-up of the 1989 Brain of Britain and Mastermind contests. Chairman
Robert Robinson , with: Barbara Thompson (Brain of Britain) Glen Binnie (Runner-up)
Mary Elizabeth Raw (Mastermind)
GUI Doubleday (Runner-up) Questions set by IAN GILLIES , ALAN PALMER and JOHN METFORD Mycroft IAN GILUES
Producer RICHARD EDIS Stereo

2: Randolph and the Shopgirl Princess. Stereo

A Tale of Two Cities
4: Beginnings. Stereo (R)

Michael Bentine is Robin Ray 's guest. Stereo (R)

Aspects of Andrew Lloyd Webber The composer talks with Mark Steyn. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN
Stereo (R) revised

2: Noble Rot

A visit to Her Majesty's Chapel Royal,
St James 's Palace, heralds the start of a historical journey spanning the battlefield of Agincourt and the christening of Prince William. Today's Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel are among those who tell the stories, accompanied by the music of Purcell,
Byrd, Handel and Tallis. Producer CHRISTINE MORGAN Stereo

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an American Slave (2). Stereo

A history in eight reels. Reel 2: Merrie England With the opinions of film historians
Jeffrey Richards and Sue Harper ; directors Richard Lester and John Boorman. Narrated by Christopher Frayling. Reader DAVID KING.
Compiled and researched by PAUL WELLS. Directed by JOHN POWELL. Stereo (R)

Peter France talks to naturalists about the role of the gnome in the ecology of his woodland home.
Producer MILES BARTON BBC Bristol (R)